Westminster Speaks

“There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.” So tout 800 British bus billboards, funded by the British Humanist Association and the pope of atheism, Richard Dawkins. The atheistic campaign, which notably did not have the courage to exclude the word “probably,” weighed the evidence and concluded that society in all probability couldn’t handle the bald proposition “There is no God.” But as The New York Times writer Ruth Gledhill noted in her Jan. 6, 2009 article, campaign organizers were shocked by the influx of resources to their campaign, as they raised hundreds of thousands of dollars in just a few days.